EPL Race for 2nd-4th

We pretty much knew back in January that Man United would win the league title, so let's shift our attention to the other two Champions League qualifying (and one qualifying round) spots.

Bold and italic = win, Italic = draw, underline = loss.

2. Manchester City (68), 5 games left. Ceiling: 83 points. Floor: 68 points. Remaining games: West Ham, @Swansea, West Brom, @Reading, Norwich. My prediction: Not the toughest bunch of remaining opponents, and I really don't see them leaving enough points on the table to get knocked down. I see at least 13 points here, with a draw against Swansea, bringing them to 81 and a lock for 2nd place.

I know I'm hoping against hope and setting myself up for rage because FSW is a complete moron as proven again on Sunday but if he plays any first choice player in either of these Europa games I will rage beyond belief. Roman has to step in and be the boss here before this clown sets this football club back significantly.

re: EPL Race for 2nd-4th(Posted by tigerfan88 on 4/23/13 at 9:27 am to theOG)

I think Arsenal gets third and tottenham fourth, Chelsea misses out. Sir Alex is beholden to wenger for selling him van persie and decides to repay the favor by playing a B team on Sunday. Plus he sees Arsenal as a much less formidable adversary than Chelsea in the long run, due to our shitty owner. Also as much hate as wenger sometimes gets he's been here before and he knows how to just pull these things out. I have much less faith in AVB and Benitez doesn't give a frick about champions league for Chelsea next year so he'll play starters in Europa. Tottenham have a much lower goal differential than chelsea and arsenal, I think that finally catches up to them and they draw one of their last 4 against bad to mediocre competition and lose to Chelsea.

Official points prediction for remaining games: Arsenal: 10 out of 12 Chelsea: 8 out of 15 Tottenham: 10 out of 15

those 2 points we left out on sunday by conceding a laste arse goal are going to do us in. This is the same feeling I had when we blew a 2-0 lead against Juventus to start the CL, I was like this is going to come back and bite us in the ass...and it did. Going to suck not being in the CL